May 7, 2007

The television genre book

This was another article that seemed very hung up on the idea of labels and making sure that everything that was made had place where it could be categorized. When one breaks it down, there could be hundreds of different ways to categorize films, and to get stuck on these sepereate ideas of what constitutes what can be called apseudo documentary vs. a portrayal or mockumentary, it's all just ways for people to try to sound smart. The "drama documentary" the day after could be considered just that. But it also could simply be considered a drama. Or better yet, a made for tv drama. Or someone might just call it a movie, or amade for tv movie. Yes, it takes real ideas, and places characters in scenarios that could actually happen, but it is also a fictional film that has no relvance to anything that has happened, nor is it trying to appear that way. So pretty much anything that any viewer wanted to call it would work. The day after seemed most like an action movie to me, if anything.

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